Respect for ones parents is the highest duty of civil life.

Handsome is that handsome does.

Where are the rough brave Britons to be found With Hearts of Oak, so much of old renowned?

Young fellows will be young fellows.

there are ears in the corn field.

Love does not consist in gazing at each other, but in looking outward in the same direction. -Unknown love quote.

The long days are no happier than the short ones.

Deeper than did ever plummet sound I 'll drown my book. -The Tempest. Act v. Sc. 1.

A malady Preys on my heart that med'cine cannot reach.

Commemoration of William Augustus Muhlenberg of New York, Priest, 1877 It is the recognition of this divine necessity -- not to forgive, but to forgive in a way which shows that God is irreconcilable to evil, and can never treat it as other or less than it is -- it is the recognition of this divine necessity, or the failure to recognise it, which ultimately divides interpreters of Christianity into evangelical and non-evangelical, those who are true to the New Testament and those who cannot digest it.

The fear of becoming a 'has-been' keeps some people from becoming anything. - The Passionate State of the Mind, 1954.

The greatest happiness of life it the conviction that we are loved -- loved for ourselves, or rather, loved in spite of ourselves.

We have not passed that subtle line between childhood and adulthood until we move from the passive voice to the active voice -- that is, until we have stopped saying "It got lost," and say, "I lost it.".

Literature has been the salvation of the damned, literature has inspired and guided lovers, routed despair and can perhaps in this case save the world.

You can't put the toothpaste back in the tube.

After all, tomorrow is another day.

Injuries may be forgiven, but not forgotten.

He was not of an age, but for all time! And all the Muses still were in their prime, When, like Apollo, he came forth to warm Our ears, or like a Mercury to charm!

DisAppointments are often His Appointments.

If you close your eyes, you could just as well imagine me to be vintage Ali MacGraw, circa 1968.